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Comment by 6420

The artifacts are scattered under the water surrounding Sunken Temple (70, 53). Very easy but slightly time consuming.

Comment by 10228

These also look like bowls.

Comment by peeweesweden

The name "Pool of Tears" probably refers to the pool of tears from players as they scratch their eyes out from pure frustration over this quest. Don't let the screenshots fool you, the artifacts are small and harder to find than a clean spot on a troll.

Comment by 26092

what a pain in the neck. bring underwater breathing potions and a magnifying device ;)

Stick it out, you can do it.

Comment by Arimer

Another bad part of this quest is that alot of the spawns of the thing will spawn inside of the walls so you cant reach them.

Comment by moonasha

took me 6 minutes. Its not that bad, and you get 4k xp for it.

Comment by 28724

There are quite a few of these artifacts around the shoreline and on the water shelf before it drops into the deepest part of the lake.

The artifacts are small and can be either bowls or something resembling a pyramid.

Comment by 24962

Most of the artifacts are around the water, and are small bowls and pyramids of skulls, see my screenshot if you want to know what I mean.

Most can be found at the shallow parts of the water, I found majority of mine around the shallow areas, around 67,63 etc.

Stick with it and watch out for somnos, 62 elite dragon immune to fear, takes 5 to kill. Part of Ony quest chain =(

EDIT: Get a lock for unlimited breathing buff (10 mins). It will help a BUNCH.

Comment by krisdl

I followed the advice above I swept the shore and got 2, I swam round the shelf before it got deep and got 4 more, then I swam around and dived as I saw them, I don't know what everyone is talking about I thought they were quite easy to spot and had no issues, 15 minutes tops, easy xp.

Comment by 27932

Hydrocane FTW
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=9452

You can easily get the hydrocane by doing speed runs of Viscous Fallout, the first boss of Gnomer. Killed him once, i won roll on Acidic Walkers, second time i won roll on Hydrocane, and that's about all he's got for a priest (although if you're going to be there long enough, might as well run through thermaplugg anyway b/c he also has good drops.)

Comment by 38221

yup very easy.. just swim around and collect. and very good for me as a rouge i increased my lockpick from 214 to 226 and got the artifacts in like 10-15 min tops

Comment by 51649

Took me about 10 minutes, I got all of mine just on the shore on the little islands and some in the shallow water. Just swim around the lake and keep your eyes open, dragging your mouse over the terrain helps to spot them too.

Comment by 67195

You can't pick up the same artifact twice. At least i couldn't.

Comment by ChildinTime

I found 7/10 of mine under the water just on the top shelf, one on the lake floor just at the base of the shelf, two just on the shore(both of those two being very close to one of the broken down marbleish(?) structures), all 10 found just circling the entire shelf 1.5 times with hydrocane(have used this constantly since i got it in gnomer). atleast half of them were found underneath trees.
also a very good tip imo is when circling the shelf and looking (their hard to see, not for their size but the color and the murky water, they tend to blend in), "spam" your cursor along the waters horizon toward the shore and watch for your cursor to change or the tool tip to come up in the bottom right hand corner.. worked wonders for me =]

Comment by 95057

remember that these items sparkle so that should help to see them

Comment by 76316

After 36 minutes i finished this painfull quest. I found plenty of them near the shores, under trees and stuff (under water of course) 64, 50 arround this part

Comment by z3n0mal4

just did this in less than 10 mins as a 43druid , just swimm around the temple

Comment by 121207

yeah, very simple. they sparkle and are very easy to find on the lake floor around the temple. there are also Mossy Footlockers around for lockpicks.

Comment by ohmyart

It's really not that bad anymore because of the patch...just swim around near the shoreline.

Comment by dasbaum

there are 6 artifacfts at the bottom of the lake around the temple ... respawn timer is ~5min

Comment by 153834

I realy dont understand why does it red at 38.
I did it very easy the objects r very small so keep your eyes open.

Comment by Amento

Correct me if I'm wrong. Theres a total of 8 artifact spawns and the respawn rate is fairly slow. Ergo, you'll be waiting quite a while for the 2 last ones. The first one I looted respawned after swiming around the temple 4 times in Aqua form.

Comment by 149349

You know i got very mad with underwater quests so i went an bought on the AH or asked a Alchemist to make me some Greater Underwater Breathing Elixir.. THEY ARE A LIFESAVER.. Only took me 8 minutes to get all my artifacts.

Link for the Elixir
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=18294

Comment by 170802

Just dive on the water and go on circles around the temple you should find some. After a while you can loot same ones. ( NOT A LONG WHILE, like 5 minutes ).

Comment by Grindalwald

Make a lap around once, go do the quest Little Morsels, go back and make another lap and you should have all of them.

Comment by 205356

the artifacts are various stuff as said above.

anyways, it is really time consuming but It's not really a waste so just be patient and wander around.

I saw some at the shoreline. I didn't really search much but i found 2.
some artifacts underwater are really hard to see so watch carefully.

Comment by Syninara

It took me no more then 5 minutes 2 get all the artifacts, as stated so many times before they are all round the shore and in shallow water, i swam most of the time and only got out when i saw something on the shore.

Comment by 115692

The most BORING quest i ever done. %^&*ty respawn time.

Comment by 283691

As a level 40 druid in my water form, this quest took me about 10 minutes. It's completely worth it if you're a druid or if you use the Elixer of Greater Breathing. The artifacts respawn pretty quickly and the Sawfin's are both easy to kill and easy to avoid. I don't know what many of you are talking about, the artifacts are quite easy to see. They tend to be around the ruins around the bottom.

Comment by 88528

Lol, anyone else who noticed that most of the "bubbles" in the water are actually letters?

Comment by MisterEver

This quest now requires 5 Atal'ai Artifacts instead of 10 (patch 3.0.8)

Comment by haughton88

From the looks of previous posts the quest used to have you find 10 artifacts. I did the quest and only need 5, obviously changed in a patch since then!

Comment by 318840

I am an idiot. I've never been in ST before, but I figure I'm an 80, I shouldn't have much trouble going into the temple, grabbing the items and leaving. Wrong. I didn't realize that they were outside of the temple, not inside (this is what you get for now reading the quest kids). After a million years spent running around in circles, completely lost, I had to hearth and fly back.

So yeah, don't go inside the temple if you don't know wtf you're going. :)

Comment by 711619

The artifacts are hard to see at the bottom of the murky waters, you have to look really close to see the sparkling, damn near have to get right up on it.

Comment by 649308

this quest is still obtainable and still doable the artifacts r really not that hard to find a good way is to follow the temple walls and loot for little flower like things you can tell that it is the artifact because it totally throws off the bottom of the lake bed.

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[DEPRECATED]Pool of Tears

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Fel'zerul in Stonard wants you to gather 5 Atal'ai Artifacts.

	Atal'ai Artifact (5)

Description

The Warchief sent us to investigate strange happenings at The Temple of Atal'Hakkar.

The Atal'ai trolls are a tribe of dark casters, known for practicing forbidden magic. You can imagine how astonished we were when we arrived here to discover the temple had been sunk.

The green dragons now guard the site, claiming to be protectors of Azeroth.

We need to discover what happened. Explore around the Pool of Tears and gather Atal'ai artifacts. From those I can begin to piece together this puzzle.

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Orgrimmar

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(1424))